Make Your PMO Stronger in 4 Smart Steps

The primary role of a PMO is to provide the oversight and
coordination to deliver projects on time and within budget. The PMO manages and
reports on risk, cost, quality, scope, and resources of all the projects.

In this article at Market Wired, Martin Levy explains that to
bring out the best from a PMO, empower them with the right tools to improve
their strength.

Decentralize the PMO

The PMOs become a bottleneck that hinders project success if
not functioned through a web-based workspace, ensuring the knowledge is shared
across the enterprise. Follow these steps to strengthen your existing PMO or
establishing a strong one:

Take the PMO Outside Information
Services: Right
from the beginning, the PMO must be established, empowered, and equipped to
serve the enterprise. It should be capable enough to resolve big issues
pertaining to project selection, resource allocation, and determining RoI.

Focus on Methods, Processes &
Metrics: Start
with a detailed audit and review of the project management implementation in
your enterprise to ensure good practices
are applied. This will help the PMOs to streamline methodologies, map out diverse
models, and determine best practices that can be applied across the
corporation.

On-demand Access to the PMO System: The PMO must pervade the organization,
and one of the effective ways to do so is
ensuring the PMO system is accessible via
the web-based workspace. It will keep the
PMO decentralized and ensure that knowledge is shared across the enterprise.

Do Not Overcomplicate the Process: Some project management tools are complex,
expensive and are designed specifically for multi-billion dollar corporations.
The organizations unable to afford such costly yet complex tools must hunt for a
system that may offer them 80 percent of the features of the bigger systems at
a fraction of the cost.

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